[The footnotes from the original Russian text follow. These are preserved as scholarly apparatus:]

1 "Folkets Dagblad Politiken" ("Daily People's Political Newspaper") — the newspaper of Swedish left social-democrats who formed the Left Social-Democratic Party of Sweden in 1917; published in Stockholm from April 1917. Called "Politiken" until November 1917.

2 On 5(18) January 1918, at the proposal of the Soviet delegation at the peace conference in Brest-Litovsk, the work of the political commission was suspended for 12 days.

3 L. D. Trotsky — at this time People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs.

4 Soviet forces liberated Orenburg from the White Cossacks on 18(31) January 1918.

5 A. I. Dutov — colonel of the Tsarist army, ataman of the Orenburg Cossack Host, one of the leaders of the Cossack counter-revolution.

6 A. M. Kaledin — general of the Tsarist army, Don Cossack ataman, active participant in the Kornilov mutiny. After the October Revolution — one of the leaders of the Cossack counter-revolution on the Don. In connection with defeat at the front on 29 January (11 February) 1918 shot himself.

7 14(27) January 1918 — the beginning of the workers' revolution in Finland.